Systems Engineer

at  Leidos

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:

You will be required to gain UK SC (Security Clearance) for this role.
To be eligible for this role you must have UK Citizenship and been a resident in the UK for minimum 5 years.

WHAT WE DO FOR YOU:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Dynamic Working

WHO WE ARE:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

THE ROLE:

We are in search of a Senior Systems Engineer for our Leidos engineering capability. The successful Systems Engineer will have a full understanding of the principles of systems engineering, will have prior experience as a Systems Engineer on a major programme involving accepting and integrating deliveries from suppliers.
As a Systems Engineer in Leidos, you will be immersed in one of our key programmes – transformation of the UK’s biometrics platform to cloud. On behalf of our central government customer, you will have direct impact on the current and future iterations of one of our most important pieces of critical national infrastructure.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Leader of a high-performing team to deliver IT services to central government agency.
• Cross-functional collaboration; both within the business, and with the customer.
• Applying your systems engineering knowledge to software-intensive & cloud hosted systems.

WHO WOULD THIS ROLE SUIT?

This role requires someone who is customer-centric, proactive, able to take ownership of a problem and work it through to resolution; have good problem-solving skills; a flexible approach to working and be able to identify & implement process improvements.

The successful individual will:

• Be able to make decisions that have an impact on the success of project objectives.
• Be able to delegate effectively, using an element of autonomy.
• Freely interacts with colleagues and can influence others.
• Proactively assess and evaluate situations and risks.
• Actively share knowledge and experience, provides input based on expertise across the delivery lifecycle.
• Investigate, define and resolve moderate and/or complex issues in a methodical manner.
• Develop, encourage and mentor others.